The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
"The truth is, we all carry our prisons within us."
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to develop something is for someone to just rip it off.
Don't wait for permission to innovate - just start.